Lauren Kurtz, executive director of Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, supports and defends climate scientists undermined by political and ideological challenges in the national political area. With the new occupant of the White House, the pressures on essential research are only mounting. Information for attorneys and others who wish to step up is available at: http://climatesciencedefensefund.org/. Stay tuned on this show’s upcoming 12-6-16 broadcast Trump transition team updates with climate scientist Professor Michael Mann.

In the second guest segment UCI 3rd year law students: Ali Chabon, Laura Lively, and Olivia Weber make the case for the UC system to implement the California law (SB 493) for campus pharmacists to dispense contraception without a prescription. Their op-ed piece was published in the LA Times 10-5-16, http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-weber-chabot-lively-uc-pharmacist-protocol-20161006-snap-story.html. For updates and further involvement these ladies can be contacted at: llively@lawet.uci.edu; achabot@lawnet.uci.edu; and olweber@lawnet.uci.edu.